On Thu 2018-12-13 12:09:50, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> kzalloc() return should be checked. On dummy_alloc() failing
> in kzalloc() NULL should be returned.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> Problem was located with an experimental coccinelle script
> 
> Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + FTRACE=y
> FUNCTION_TRACER=y, EXPERT=y, LATENCYTOP=y, SAMPLES=y, SAMPLE_LIVEPATCH=y
> (with a number of unrelated sparse warnings on symbols not being static)
> 
> Patch is against 4.20-rc6 (localversion-next is next-20181213)
> 
>  samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c 
> b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
> index 4c54b25..57d5cde 100644
> --- a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
> +++ b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
> @@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ noinline struct dummy *dummy_alloc(void)
>  
>       /* Oops, forgot to save leak! */
>       leak = kzalloc(sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
> +     if (!leak)
> +             return NULL;

The same comments apply here as for PATCH 1/2.

Best Regards,
Petr

Reply via email to